They got all my friends, but they didn't get me!
Posted on 03/05/2011 7:12:18 PM PST by decimon
LONDON (Reuters) – A 350-year-old notebook which documents the trials of women convicted of witchcraft in England during the 17th century has been published online.
The notebook written by Nehemiah Wallington, an English Puritan, recounts the fate of women accused of having relationships with the devil at a time when England was embroiled in a bitter civil war.
The document reveals the details of a witchcraft trial held in Chelmsford in July 1645, when more than a hundred suspected witches were serving time in Essex and Suffolk according to his account.
"Divers (many) of them voluntarily and without any forcing or compulsion freely declare that they have made a covenant with the Devill," he wrote.
"Som Christians have been killed by their meanes," he added.
Of the 30 women on trial in Chelmsford, 14 were hanged.
Wallington also recounts the experiences of Rebecca West, a suspected witch who confessed to sleeping with the devil when she was tortured because "she found her selfe in such extremity of torture and amazement that she would not enure (endure) it againe for the world." Her confession spared her.
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Familiar women ping.
they should have asked her, she was the head witch..
Well, we did do the nose...
Thank you NOT!!! I will be having nightmares tonight because of this. (Although it is funny)
There was one tied to a pole in a bay in Scotland and the people watched as the tide came in and drowned her.
I've read of a little test that was done. Tie her up and dunk her in a river. If she didn't drown then she was a witch. Don't know if that was actually done but I have read that.
There is an area near where I live called Witchduck, because someone suspected of being a witch was dunked near there...
That’s how witchduck rd in VaBch got named.
That was the Dunking chair.
They also used to tie something to them and chuck them in and if they floated they were considered a witch and if they drowned they werent.
What a bunch. I read that most of the cases might have been caused by ergot poisoning. ergot is a mold that was in the barley and it is not unlike LSD. So they went around in a state of drug induced paranoia and thought they saw witches and accused anyone that didnt look just right.
List of witch trials in North America and names of accused, 1600s-1700s:
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/witchtrial/na.html
I see a William Ayers as both an accuser and the accused. Some things never change.
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That’s just insulting to witches. Don’t blame anyone but yourself when you get turned into a newt.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing,—
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
He really had it goin’ on.
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